U.S. Court of Appeals

Setback for Spectra Pipeline Opponents as State Judge Throws Out Lawsuit

The juggernaut that is the NJ-NY Expansion Project, familiarly known as the Spectra Pipeline, has crushed another obstacle, bringing the operation of a 30-inch-diameter transmission line full of highly-pressurized explosive natural gas in the heart of the West Village one step closer to reality. Op ... More >>

Make Way for More Media Giants: FCC Paving Way for Titans to Cross-Own Entities

The FCC may allow the media landscape in top-20 markets to resemble the one in New York City -- where media mogul Rupert Murdoch is permitted to own television stations and newspapers. The internet has been abuzz for the past month with news that FCC chairman Julius Genachowski circulated a plan to ... More >>

Edith Windsor, Octogenarian Widow, Beats Down DOMA (and Gives John Boehner a Piece Of Her Mind)

Pride month has just started, and yet over the course of May and just the first few days of June, the fight for gay marriage has arguably seen more progress in the last four weeks than in any time in history. In fact, if you're a journalist on the gay marriage beat who also writes about other things ... More >>

Obama's DOJ Compares a "Reporter's Privilege" For Leaks to Buying Drugs

The Obama administration has had a tough time fighting the War on Leaks. From Bradley Manning's arrest in the WikiLeaks controversial to the successful subpoenaing of Twitter, critics have heralded the Presidency as one of the most anti-leak executive reigns in recent history.And a new chapter was w ... More >>

Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum: Who Is The Bigger Right-Winger?

In terms of his political views, Mitt Romney has heard it all: flip-flopper, moderate, secret liberal, pseudo-conservative, Etch-A-Sketch; the list goes on and on. Republican voters have had a rather excessively hard time throwing their support behind a guy who influenced Obamacare and was pro-choic ... More >>

Churches Prepare for Eviction from School Spaces; Mayor Says He's Not Backing Down

Sam LevinPastor Sal Sabino, left, will not be allowed to lead worship services in school spaces.​Next Sunday, Pastor Sal Sabino, from Heavenly Vision Christian Center, will conduct his worship services on the street. That's because this coming Sunday is the last time he and his congregation ... More >>

Michael Bloomberg Sued by Reporter Over Cathie Black Freedom of Information Requests

​Today, I am suing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Last year, Bloomberg baffled New Yorkers when he appointed publishing executive Cathie Black to be the city's next schools chancellor. Black was an unpopular choice, and for months, responses to her appointment ran the gamut of ridicul ... More >>

Allen Ginsberg Explains Timothy Leary

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 12, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 9 Remarks on Leary's Politics of Ecstasy by Allen Ginsberg By the late '40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dow ... More >>

George W. Obama

After his first year, Obama shows his true face

Outed Spy Valerie Plame Loses Appeal in First Amendment Case

​Outed ex-spy Valerie Plame Wilson, whose memoir was heavily censored by the C.I.A., lost a second attempt to get the whole story out today. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the C.I.A.'s right to edit out of Wilson's 2007 memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, information relating to ... More >>

Sotomayor Strip-Search Opinion Offers Clue to Her Civil Rights Stance

Last week, while President Obama was vetting her credentials out of the Oval Office, Judge Sonia Sotomayor firmly dissented from her appeals court colleagues on a case that -- while it surely won't be considered a landmark ruling in the vein of saving Major League Baseball -- suggests her approach t ... More >>

Bloomberg Psyched About Sotomayor (Who Thwarted Him on Homeless)

Mayor Bloomberg is psyched about President Obama nominating Bronxite Sonia Sotomayor to the highest court in the land: "When I met with the President in the Oval Office earlier this month," he says in a statement at his website, "I took the opportunity to tell him that Sonia Sotomayor would be an ... More >>

3rd Time's The Charm? Siegel and Mastro Ask the Feds to Restore Term Limits

After losing their federal lawsuit challenging the City Council's right to overturn term limits for Mayor Bloomberg, advocates are turning to the federal government. Last month veteran civil rights attorney (and current candidate for public advocate) Norman Siegel, along with the corporate law fir ... More >>

Gun Dealer Wins His Case; Bloomberg's Goin' to Georgia

New York City's Struggle to Take Down Illegal Billboards

City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads

Supreme Court to Americans: In Your Face!

Supreme Court Backs NY's System of Picking Judges

When Judges Attack!

The war president is finding a less pliant judiciary

Joe Frederick, First Amendment Idol

Will the Supreme Court hold high the banner 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus,' or crush free speech?

Do You Miss Our Constitution?

No previous American law has been as subversive as the Military Commissions Act of 2006

Full Text: Alito on Presidential Power

Excluded From the High Court

Has any present Supreme Court justice seen a cop lying on the witness stand?

Morning Report 9/4/05
Rehnquist Death Gives Bush Chance to Deepen American Crisis

Whitewash U.

A recent court ruling opens the gates for the censorship of college papers

Supreme Court Pick Roberts Gave Money to Bush’s Campaign

Personal checks and balances

Cash Bar in D.C.

People will pay to see this court battle. In fact, they're paying right now.

Jihad Fever: Catch It!

The Schiavo Circus

The Brothers Bush turn flips—no net!—for right-to-lifers

Meet John Doe

The RIAA runs its lawsuits as a volume business, and sometimes downloaders just gotta settle

Mike Wallace v. Charles Schumer

Will Chuck Schumer, or any anti-Pickering revilers, finally apologize to the judge?

Mike Wallace, the Redeemer

CBS's 60 Minutes takes the case, and judge Charles Pickering gets his reputation back

The Hidden Supreme Court

Test yourselves: How many of you can recognize the nine most powerful Americans?

A Judge Who Did Justice

'You Have Committed a Despicable Act,' Said Sentencing Judge Pickering

Bush Accused by Lords of the Bar

They Put Him in a Legal Black Hole

Analyze This!

Italians Iced From Federal Judicial Appointments

What Gay-Friendly Republicans?

Homos Get the Glad Hand, Phobes Get the Power

The Facts: Schumer v. Pickering

Glaring Racial Insensitivity?

When Peace Is a Threat

The City Labels Anti-War Marchers a Security Breach

An Indispensable Gay Man

His 1963 March on Washington 'Woke Up America'

Nation

Joe Klein and the Comeback Kid

Should Clinton Get Immunity?

Protesting the Louima Decision

Crime Out of Mind

The New Thought Police Don't Care What You Do—Only What You Imagine

Straightness 101

Christian Conservatives Take Their Antigay Campaign to the Schools

Honest Admissions

Race Is Not a College Qualification

Schmooze or Play Hardball?

New D.C. Gang Poses Media Dilemma

A Sudanese Woman Tells Her Story

'Our People Were Turned to Ash'

The Scorned Law Professor

'Freedom to Speak Is Not Freedom to Kill'

Sue the Messenger, Part One

Rash of Lawsuits Shows No One Trusts the Media

Partial Fizzle

Antiabortion Strategy Loses Political Ground